scholarly journals Urban Green Spaces and Housing Prices: An Alternative Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Liebelt ◽  
Stephan Bartke ◽  
Nina Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Economics ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Hedonic Pricing ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Essential Components

Urban green spaces (UGS) are essential components of sustainable cities that provide many benefits to urban residents, such as recreation or aesthetics. Urban residents may be willing to pay for some of these ecosystem services. Indeed, studies investigating the formation of housing prices through hedonic pricing analysis have shown that UGS can influence housing prices. Hedonic pricing analysis puts housing units at the center of analysis. In this study, we investigate whether an alternative perspective provides additional insights into the effects of UGS on pricing. The proposed approach puts UGS into the center of analysis by applying an analysis of buffer zones to housing prices, thus, linking approaches from urban economics and landscape ecology. Such an analysis could deepen our understanding of the effects of UGS on housing prices by analyzing price–distance slopes around UGS-thus supporting more informed decisions on efficient UGS management and urban planning. Our results using a case study on Leipzig, Germany, demonstrate that the size of UGS affects price–distance slopes around them. We conclude that further investigations should be fathomed to unleash the potential of applying the analysis of buffer zones around UGS as a method to inform sustainable UGS design in cities.

scholarly journals Five years of citizen science and standardized field surveys reveal a threatened urban Eden for wild bees in Brussels, Belgium

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas J. Vereecken ◽  
Timothy Weekers ◽  
Leon Marshall ◽  
Jens D’Haeseleer ◽  
Maarten Cuypers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
List Type ◽  
Wild Bees ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Capital Region ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Essential Components

AbstractUrbanisation is often put forward as an important driver of biodiversity loss, including for pollinators such as wild bees. However, recent evidence shows that the mosaics of urban green spaces, and in particular certain categories of informal urban green spaces (IGS), can play an important role to help native wild bees thrive in cities.Here, we describe the results of five years of citizen science and standardised field surveys of wild bees conducted at the Friche Josaphat, a 24-ha urban wasteland in the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium). These field surveys were initiated following the planned restructuring and partial destruction of this site by the regional authorities.We recorded a total of 2,507 specimens belonging to 127 species of wild bees, i.e. 60.5% of the 210 species recorded regionally, including nine that are threatened with extinction at national or European scales. The Friche Josaphat encompasses a significant share of the functional and phylogenetic diversity of wild bees known from the Brussels-Capital Region and is one of the most species-rich localities known to date for wild bees in Belgium.Collectively, our results highlight the strong complementarity of citizen science and academic approaches in biodiversity surveys, and they reaffirm that wastelands are essential components of urban biodiversity. Our study stresses the need to provide biodiverse IGS with a formal status within the mosaic of urban green spaces, but also to acknowledge and safeguard their natural capital and the multiple ecosystem services they provide.

scholarly journals Valuing individual characteristics and the multifunctionality of urban green spaces: The integration of sociotope mapping and hedonic pricing

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. e0212277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Czembrowski ◽  
Edyta Łaszkiewicz ◽  
Jakub Kronenberg ◽  
Gustav Engström ◽  
Erik Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Hedonic Pricing ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces

scholarly journals Tweeting the High Line Life: A Social Media Lens on Urban Green Spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8895
Author(s):  
Jisoo Sim ◽  
Patrick Miller ◽  
Samarth Swarup
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Social Media Analytics ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
High Line ◽  
Study Sites ◽  
Media Data

The objective of this study is to investigate elevated parks as urban green spaces using social media data analytics. Two popular elevated parks, the High Line Park in New York and the 606 in Chicago, were selected as the study sites. Tweets mentioning the two parks were collected from 2015 to 2019. By using text mining, social media users’ sentiments and conveyed perceptions about the elevated parks were studied. In addition, users’ activities and their satisfaction were analyzed. For the 606, users mainly enjoyed the free events at the park and worried about possible increases in housing prices and taxes because of the 606. They tended to participate in physical activities such as biking and walking. Although the 606 provides scenic observation points, users did not seem to enjoy these. Regarding the High Line, users frequently mentioned New York City, which is an important aspect of the identity of the park. The High Line users also frequently mentioned arts and relaxation. Overall, this study supports the idea that social media analytics can be used to gain an understanding of the public’s use of urban green spaces and their attitudes and concerns.

scholarly journals The influence of urban landscape spatial patterns on single-family housing prices

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-Hyun Kim ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Galen Newman ◽  
Sung-Ho Kil ◽  
Sun Young Park
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces

Many empirical studies assessing the economic benefits of urban green space have continually documented that green space tends to increase both value and sale price of nearby residential properties. Previous studies, however, have not fully captured the quality of neighborhood level landscape spatial patterns on housing prices. To fill this literature gap, this study examined the association between landscape spatial patterns of urban green spaces and single-family home sale transactions using a spatial regression model. The research was conducted through the analysis of 11,326 housing transaction records from 2010 to 2012 in Austin, TX, USA. Variables measuring the structural, locational and neighborhood characteristics of housing were coupled with Geographic Information Systems, remote sensing and FRAGSTATS to calculate several landscape indices measuring the quality of existing landscape spatial patterns. After controlling for any spatial autocorrelation effects, we found that that larger tree and urban forest areas surrounding single-family homes positively contributed to property values, while more fragmented, isolated and irregularly shaped landscape spatial patterns resulted in the inverse. The results of this research increase awareness of the role of urban green spaces while informing community design/planning practices about the linkages between landscape spatial structure and economic benefits.

Urban green spaces and housing prices in developing countries: A Two-stage quantile spatial regression analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 102420
Author(s):  
Manuel A. Zambrano-Monserrate ◽  
María Alejandra Ruano ◽  
Cristina Yoong-Parraga ◽  
Carlos A. Silva
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Spatial Regression ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Spatial Regression Analysis

scholarly journals How Are Urban Green Spaces and Residential Development Related? A Synopsis of Multi-Perspective Analyses for Leipzig, Germany

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 630
Author(s):  
Nina Schwarz ◽  
Annegret Haase ◽  
Dagmar Haase ◽  
Nadja Kabisch ◽  
Sigrun Kabisch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Hedonic Pricing ◽  
Context Dependency ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Spatial Pattern Analysis ◽  
Residential Location Choice ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces

The relationship between urban green spaces (UGS) and residential development is complex: UGS have positive and negative immediate impacts on residents’ well-being, residential location choice, housing, and land markets. Property owners and real estate agents might consider how prospective clients perceive UGS and act accordingly, while urban planners influence UGS location and management as well as aim at steering the built environment. Typically, studies focus on one of these perspectives at a time. Here, we provide a synopsis of results from studies, taking different perspectives for a single case study: Leipzig, Germany. We summarise and discuss the findings of eight studies on UGS and residential development. In detail, these studies focus on spatial pattern analysis, hedonic pricing analysis, mixed-methods studies on experts’ perspectives, surveys, and choice experiments exploring residents’ perceptions of UGS. We reflect on the feasibility of deriving a synthesis out of these independent studies and to what extent context matters. We conclude that both triangulating of data and methods, as well as long-term and context-sensitive studies are needed to explain the interlinkages between UGS and residential development and their context dependency.

scholarly journals Sensitivity analysis in multi-criteria evaluation of the suitability of urban green spaces for recreational activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sercan Cakir ◽  
Robert Hecht ◽  
Kerstin Krellenberg
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Spatial Decision Support System ◽  
Spatial Decision Support ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation

Abstract. Urban green spaces can have potential positive impacts on climate, biodiversity, health, and generally on the quality of life for urban residents and are of great importance for pursuing recreational activities. People as urban green space users should therefore be well informed about where they are located within a city and what activities they are suitable for. As people’s individual preferences play a significant role in the decision-making process for visiting urban green spaces, we present a method that enables to assess urban green spaces upon various activities in accordance with a range of criteria. A sensitivity analysis to investigate the influence of weighting the criteria in a multi-criteria evaluation of the suitability of urban green spaces for recreational activities depending on people’s preferences is in the focus. Initial results are shown based on an exemplary use case of playing Frisbee. Overall, the study is embedded in the development of a spatial decision support system implemented in the form of a web app to assist urban residents make decisions in the context of green space use.

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